| haxxiy said: The 65W power cap is probably too severe, even the X3Ds are capped at like 120W. But for a chip to have passed testing and now be unable to reach makes me think it must be some combination of a faulty cooling installation (which worsens leakage by itself) plus razor-thin margins in that regard. |
Yeah seeing der8auer's results when he upped the power was eye opening. It reminded me of the old days of when you could over clock your PC and see massive gains. That said the power didn't do much for games, it seemed only make a significant difference in non gaming applications. AMD should have called the 9700X the 9700 and had another sku with a higher power limit called the 9700X. Sure knowledgeable enthusiasts would just tweak the 9700 anyway, but most people just rock "out of the box" performance.
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